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Back in January I ran a special offer on our new (at the time) auditing service, and as the holidays approach I'd like to do it again!

What I'm offering:

I'll perform a remote maintenance/operations audit for US$750 for the first 10 customers to sign up by January 15th, limited to 4 hours of my time, a savings of over 40% on our regular rates.

[Edit: 12/30/10: 6 signed up – 4more available!]

What do you get:

The remote audits take the form of us giving you some non-intrusive scripts to run on each server (capturing things like database configuration, index usage, wait stats), plus a detailed questionnaire to fill in. We analyze the results and send you a list of recommendations, with supporting explanations and links to deeper information. Any time that's left over you can use however you want (questions/discussions, design reviews, etc) over the phone or email. I even had one customer spend the time by recording an interview with me to play back to their wider operations team to convince them of the need for a full-time DBA.

As part of a regular remote consulting engagement, we'd also be engaging with the DBA team through web-meetings, phone calls, email conversations to undertake performance tuning, design work, and so on. However, many people just want to buy a small, limited block of time to run a quick audit and get the OK or a set of changes to implement to improve operations – this is where the standalone audits come in.

The standalone audit services we offer take a much shorter time (depending on environment size) than a regular consulting engagement, as they don't involve web-meetings and in-depth interaction with the DBA team, so they're a lot more cost-effective when on a tight budget. Of course, we also provide remote performance tuning, available in small blocks of time rather than an open-ended engagement, and the traditional 'figure out all sorts of problems' consulting engagements.

How do you get it:

Shoot me an email (click here) if you're interested in any of these services and/or want to be one of the lucky few to take part in the promotion. This offer is valid anywhere in the world.

We look forward to working with you!

PS As I've been asked this twice since posting this, if you want to move ahead with this quickly but are concerned about delays due to the holiday season at your company, we can accept all major credit cards.